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Turn your best AI prompts into one-click tools in Chrome

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Re: Turn your best AI prompts into one-click tools in Chrome

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These days announcements like this just make me want to put on my tinfoil hat - what's in it for Google, though? Why make it more convenient for people to submit webpages to you?

Lots of people are flocking to Claude and ChatGPT -- and making Gemini more useful in the browser everyone already has makes a lot of sense.

More Google use, more data they gather, more ads they can show you

Re: Turn your best AI prompts into one-click tools in Chrome

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Tried to visit the first domain, baydailymedia, but doesn't seem to exist... I know its unsurprising and not against the rules or even spirit of showing off your new toy, but some humor in the aria tag "Video of user creating a protein maxing Skill" and then within the video, a fat "Video for illustrative purposes" "Results may vary" "check response for accuracy"

Second video seem's more real. And yeah, again not against the rules, but dropping onto website, no ads, prompting data out of it is very in the ethos of our current "lets just do an ai" to be relavent era.

Re: Turn your best AI prompts into one-click tools in Chrome

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my most commonly repeated prompt; would be nice if the baked it into the tool itself: "No emojis. be concise. no suggestions unless I explicitly ask for them. answer questions like the machine you are. Don't try and add personality or humour; remember you're a robot."

lol I once used a similar “you’re a machine so just do as you’re told” to a prompt and it answered back: “I’m not a machine, I’m Claude a helpful assistant” and refused to do what I asked because it claimed I didn’t have the authority to make the decision I’d asked it to convey in writing.

Re: Turn your best AI prompts into one-click tools in Chrome

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post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There are no third-party Skills, you can only create your own or use Google's readymade ones.

If you can create your own, what's stopping you from copy pasting someone else's?

Nothing, but the point is that there's nothing like the Chrome extension store.

Re: Turn your best AI prompts into one-click tools in Chrome

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post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I can immediately think of personal use cases for this.

Any you can share?

Fight enshittification. For whatever reason, many travel sites no longer send full details in the e-mail confirmation, they want you to click through to the site...which means I can't forward it to plans@tripit.com for automatic import.

Immediately after booking something,I tell Gemini to add it to my TripIt. Works great. I have a little prompt explaining how I like it formatted that I cut and paste, so I can just make this a one-click prompt. I could also have it add flights to my.flightradar24.com.

I also use Gemini in Chrome to add appointment confirmations to my calendar. Or remember things in Google Keep.

There's lot of use cases for this kind of thing.

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